Word: swears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gray insists that the growth of his empire is merely a response to the outpouring of interest in his work--hey, if people want a book for singles, he'll oblige. But though his intentions may be honorable and though any number of people swear by his methods, his sketchy credentials and entrepreneurial energies have some mental-health professionals more than a little concerned. "Couples relationships are incredibly complex," says Anna Beth Benningfield, president-elect of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. "To tell a couple to go read this book and do this one thing...
...bureaucrats lived and ate better than everyone else. We had to swear loyalty oaths to the state, call Lenin 'Grandpa Lenin,'" he says. "One year all the history exams were canceled because Gorbachev had just come to power and nobody knew what the official version was anymore...
...standard joke about Harvard's class of 1947 goes something like this: At your 25th reunion you think you know your classmates, and at the 50th you'd swear they were all your roommates.Courtesy Harvard Yearbook PublicationsDuring the "Great Return,' many students were forced to sleep in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...actually didn't swear at all in high school; I never used that particular word in casual conversation or scrawled it on bathroom stalls. I didn't want overuse to dim the impact of that word in case I ever needed it. But in (good) writing, words are sacred, and each one counts, and each one is there for a reason...
...like Harvard students don't swear. It's not as if four-letter words don't pervade our society, from movies to radio to the sounds of the street. Even a few Harvard professors have been known to slip when the Science Center projectors crash yet again...